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For those of you in a graduate program...

Transcendence

Transcendence

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I have some basic questions to try and get a feel for admissions qualities in a typical graduate student.

What did you pursue for a major during undergrad, what overall GPA did you attain, and from what school?

What are you now pursuing for a degree and from which school?

Did you find it difficult or easy to gain admittance to graduate schools you wanted to attend?

Did you do anything such as getting research published or write a thesis that helped you get into graduate school?

Thanks.
 
Dude, I'm at an international business school ranked in the Top 10 worldwide...Working on my Master, actually done with class, just working on my thesis now.

To get in I wrote some amazingly baller essays, got some extremely reputable letters of rec. and had borderline GPA & GMAT scores lol (3.25 GPA for undergrad, 600 GMAT)...I actually had a lower GMAT than they allow, but I guess my essays made up for it- I really think the written part of the application is the #1 factor in your admission.

For my undergrad I did a BS in Management at a good private university (not top tier, but pretty good).

No research or thesis for undergrad is necessary man, that's what Grad school is all about! (If you're trying to go straight to a PhD, then it would help a lot).

Good luck!
 
I'm majoring in biochem and interested in persuing a Ph.D in a related field of science, so for me research in undergrad is pretty much required. More than anything, I'm trying to get a feel for what kind of GPAs people get into good graduate schools with.
 
I'm majoring in biochem and interested in persuing a Ph.D in a related field of science, so for me research in undergrad is pretty much required. More than anything, I'm trying to get a feel for what kind of GPAs people get into good graduate schools with.
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Ah. Why not look at the mean GPAs for applicants admitted to your most desired schools, and perhaps a couple of safety-schools too? You should be able to find this and mean GRE scores on the websites of the institutions to which you're applying, school ranking references, etc.

The following would be more difficult, but you should also try to get a feel for how GPA weighs in comparison to other criteria. You could talk to an advisor about it. . .

I could tell you something more specific if you were going into sociology. ;)

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I'm a linguistics masters student in Buffalo, NY so I guess that doesn't help your field too much...I got accepted to a whole bunch of schools, 3.6 GPA but not the greatest GRE score...the Statement of Purpose is by far the most important part of the app --- in the US, most PhD programs come with some sort of TA-ship or another, so there's some money there...the masters students just get sorta screwed, hah.
 
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